Anyone Using Ableton Live 10?

80sMetalDude

80sMetalDude

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I purchased Ableton Live 10 Standard and just find the whole workflow UI feels clunky.

Did I just get a completely WRONG DAW for guitar tracking?

It feels like every single thing I try and do feels counter intuitive ...

The whole 'session', 'arrangement' view switching continuously to do what would natively be on the screen in any other DAW drives me batty.

I'm about to call it a loss and go another route. Looking for suggestions. May just donate 60 and get going with full Reaper.
 
yeah no. ableton is terrific for some things, but simple tracking isn't one of them

reaper gets a lot of love round here, so you'll be in good company. i've been using logic since version 4.2 and i still think it's the best bang for the buck. if you want to knock up demos with drums, synth, bass etc etc and mix it all with some really great plugins, it can't be beat, imo.
 
Thanks this is one of the first times I felt a little misled by Sweetwater. My choice ultimately but I expressed my confusion about which DAW to get and the sales guy didn't skip a beat when I mentioned Ableton. I love Sweetwater don't get me wrong just in hindsite would have loved to hear 'No no...Id look elsewhere for guitar tracking ...' meh. I'm sure there are things it does well that in the future I may use, but for now I'm going to try Reaper.

I should have done my research.
 
I have Ableton 10. I haven’t used it so much. But I think I started with Live 3. I’ve never used it too much and never as my main DAW. For jam DAW it could be really, really cool. So I’m not sure you were misled so much. It is awkward and clunky.
 
I use Ableton and Logic pretty much every day, and I think Ableton works fine for tracking. It’s a great DAW, so don’t think that it’s not capable of meeting your needs. Like anything new, you just need to spend some more time with it, or take an online course.

That said, you could always check out Bitwig. It’s very similar to Ableton in many respects (some of the design team came from Ableton, if I remember correctly), but it has some improvements such as being able to see the session and arrangement views simultaneously. Bitwig also supports both 32 and 64 bit plugins natively, which may or may not be important to you.

Lately I’ve been spending a lot more time in Bitwig, and it’s been a very positive experience overall. You might want to download the free trial and see if you get along with it better.
 
I just bought Reaper. I thought about this for a while and I accomplished more in several hours in the trial than I did in a month of Ableton... I am not "done" with Ableton as I hate to not get my $$$ worth out of something that expensive... so I'm sure I will find the patience some time to learn it. BUT RIGHT NOW... my patience is for the AXE III and its nuances not a DAW. When I learn the AXE III enough to feel I got what I want learned, then I'll have more patience on the DAW end.

Thx for the suggestions.
 
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